PARAMESUS. 293 



Length (S 7 millim. 



Hab. Ceylon ; Pattipola, Kandy, Negombo, Paradua (Jide 

 Melichar). 



The typical specimen figured is from the Museum Hongrois, 

 and was kindly lent me for that purpose by Dr. Horvath. 



2541. Selenocephalus dolens, Mdick. Horn. Faun. Ceylon, p. 170, 

 t. iv, f. 20 (1903). 



" Vertex furrowed and bordered by two black lines, line of 

 vertex broader than line of face, ac ends " gewulstet," behind 

 these a transverse line running from one eye to the other, in 

 middle interrupted bow-like, arched; face pale yellow; second 

 joint of antennae brown ; pronotum sparingly spotted with brown; 

 scutellum with a brown triangle in each basal angle and in the 

 middle with a deepened bow-shaped transverse line ; tegmina 

 brownish-yellow, shining, not marked, with darker veins ; wings 

 fuliginous ; body beneath and legs pale yellow with black spots on 

 posterior tibiae." (Melichar.) 



'• Length $ 7 millim."' 



Hab. Ceylon (Jide Melichar.) 



Genus PARAMESUS. 



Paramesus, Fieb. Verh. z.-b. ges. Wien, xvi, p. 506 (1866) ; id. Rev. 

 Maq. Zool. (3) iii, p. 399 (1875) ; Melich. Cic. Mitt.-Europ. p. 201 

 (1896). 



Type, P. nervosus, Fall., a Palaearctic species. 



Distribution. Nearctie, Palasarctic and Oriental Regions. 



" Margin of vertex linear, ridged above and below margin with 

 short fine transverse wrinkles parallel to margin, hollowed out on 

 the upper surface, the margin of vertex consequently somewhat 

 raised ; the whole face very finely shagreeued ; clypeus somewhat 

 long, gradually widened to apex, almost spatulate, "ziigel,"not ex- 

 tending to end of clypeus, cheeks and middle of the sides very 

 obtusely angulated, almost round; pronotum in front very flatly 

 curved ; face to vertex on ridge nearly sub-right-angularly obtuse, 

 to the clypeus suddenly narro\Aed ; ocelli on the ridge of vertex 

 near the eyes ; veins of tegmina distinct, the brown bordering of 

 the veins strongly pronounced, the inner forked branch of first 

 sector connected with the internal vein by two transverse veins so 

 that there are two discal cells, three middle cells and five terminal 

 cells are also formed ; no marginal appendage. Direction of veins 

 in tegmina as in Selenocephalus." (Melichar.) 



Eieber locates this geuus near Goniaijnathus. 



